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In the article “Rethinking digital anthropology”, Tom Boellstoff (2012) attempts to figure out the complex relationships between the virtual (the online) and the actual (the physical or offline), as he defined the digital anthropology ‘an approach to researching the virtual’ (Boellstoff, 2012, p.40). He concerns on a mistaken belief that the virtual and the actualContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital ethnography based on Tom Boellstoff’s “Rethinking Digital Anthropology” (2012)”

In Roland Barthes’s book Camera Lucida (2000), he talked about visual analysis by focusing on his own perspectives of photograph and photography, instead of talking more about photograph technologically and professionally. His book is more like a “diary” that can be read in spare time and can bring some thoughts at the same time. HeContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of visual analysis based on Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida”

When having no step by step procedures to follow in the process of discourse analysis, the researchers are facing many difficulties. Discourse analysis mainly focus on language and texts, in which social meanings, social identities and social facts are formed and reproduced (Tonkiss, 2018). Through the discourse analysis, it examines how ideologies are reproduced byContinue reading “What are the particular difficulties that researchers face when there are no step by step procedures to follow, yet there is a requirement for the systematic analysis of a dataset?”